Brian Lawrence Live

Tues., May 27
I was invited to attend a preview screening of the new “Sex and the City” film tonight at Loew’s in White Marsh. The film was enjoyable enough (though a bit on the long side, I thought) and the ladies were out in force to get caught up in the SATC mania. The after-party was held across the street at Bayou Blues cafe, so we wondered over to check it out. The crowd was easily 95 percent female. There was some low-end food on a buffet table— chips with a spinach cream dip, cheese quesadillas— that I figured most people would ignore. There were also some passed hors d’oeuvres. What I witnessed was a bit shocking. The women in the crowd lined up and started shoveling that high-calorie, high-saturated fat junk food onto their plates like there was no tomorrow! (My two sisters were brought up to believe that ladies are seldom seen eating in public, other than in a restaurant or club with friends or family. In a social situation, maybe a polite passed appetizer or two, nothing more.) I would think that in a social situation, where you’re expected to chat with people and mingle, this sort of display of poor manners would be at a minimum. Not with this crowd!